Hello fellow Ultros players on ZAM! I know some of you are in the same boat as me: waiting for them to unlock character creation for Ultros so that our friends/family can join us on our glorious server! I made a thread in the technical support forum at the official FFXIV forums hoping to bring some attention to this issue as from what I know we've been locked for character creation since the 9/3/13 maintenance! If you'd like to post in the thread I made to bump it and bring some more attention to the issue that would be great!

They are well aware of which servers are locked for new characters. They are actively monitoring the server populations and locking the servers which are constantly reaching their simultaneous connection limit. This is to prevent server crashes, so they won't change the policy because you asked nicely.

#4Humanreck,
Posted:Sep 09 2013 at 5:38 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Seriously though, are you unable to comprehend what you read? Do you know what a petition looks like? Does the post I linked look anything like a petition? Yes I know why the restrictions are in place, moreso than you in fact since I've been looking for additional information on the subject rather than blindly accepting what Square feeds us in prepared statements.

I went ahead and posted here and there in the Forums about the Character Creation restrictions (I'm trying to get friends and family onto Hyperion myself). They know this is an issue. I still feel that politely worded feedback on the Forum is essential to helping SE set priorities.

I would have to say that this is pretty much priority #1 according to Yoshida himself.

In the end, it looks like whatever is coming in Thursday's patch should help the situation even further.

My husband and I are on separate servers because Cactuar (the server me and all our friends are on) remains locked. Server transfers don't really leave me hopeful, because I doubt they'll open up Cactuar to transfer to, when its already full to bursting. Rerolling isn't an option at this time, since the vast majority of our friends are already rooted in Cactuar. Its an unpleasant situation.